Title: Security Update Question
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Security Update Question

 *  Resolved [Kenneth Feldman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kenneth-feldman/)
 * (@kenneth-feldman)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-update-question/)
 * Regarding the recent alert:
 * [https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00161.html](https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00161.html)
 * Is there anything users of WP fail2ban need to do or know?
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fail2ban/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fail2ban/)

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 *  Plugin Author [invisnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/invisnet/)
 * (@invisnet)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-update-question/#post-5108594)
 * No, WPf2b uses the same regex as sshd – far simpler than the ones that caused
   the problem.

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